BOARD OF TRUSTEES

NANCY PEARLMAN

Member of the Board

Nancy Pearlman is serving her fourth term with the Board of Trustees for the LosAngeles Community College District (LACCD), originally elected to the Board in 2001.She leads the effort to have sustainable buildings and operations for the District.

Ms. Pearlman is an award-winning broadcaster, journalist, environmentalist, collegeinstructor, anthropologist, editor, producer, on-air personality, and outdoorswomanwho has made safeguarding the earth’s ecosystems her career. For forty-seven years,she has given her time and energy to environmental and human causes. She wasselected by the United Nations Environment Program as a Global 500 Laureate andhas received many other honors including the Chevron Conservation Award.

Since 1970 when Nancy coordinated the first Earth Day in Southern California, she hasworked with and continues to be involved with hundreds of conservation organizations,serving as administrator, founder, member of advisory councils, participant, andmember of boards of directors. She founded the Ecology Center of Southern Californiain 1972, Project Ecotourism in 1993, Humanity and the Planet in 2001, Earth Cultures in2004, and Nancy Pearlman, the Eco-Traveler in 2007.

ENVIRONMENTAL DIRECTIONS, her international weekly radio series, was started in1977 and is now the longest-running environmental radio series in the country onbroadcast and the web. These half-hour programs have featured leading scientists,authors, activists, and representatives from the business, academic, government, andnonprofit sectors. There are over 2000 shows.

As Executive Producer and Host of the three-time EMMY-nominated environmentaltelevision series ECONEWS, Nancy covers every ecological issue. Since 1984, she haspresented her programs weekly to over 20 million homes via cable and broadcasttelevision and over the Internet. Over 600 shows air on local origination, public access,governmental, school, and university channels, as well as on satellite to PBS stations.

Television documentary specials that have won awards include: “Gem in the Heartof the City” (the definitive piece on the Santa Monica Mountains National RecreationArea), “Wind: Energy for the 90’s and Beyond,” and “Population Crisis, USA.” Televisionshow honors include ACE-nominations (Award for Cable Excellence), Hometown USAVideo Festival, Diamond Awards, and Buccaneer Awards from the Public Interest Radioand Television Educational Society. Her Ecotourism documentaries feature over 30countries on 5 continents from her travels in over 90 countries.

As Executive Director to Educational Communications, Nancy has edited for 44 yearsthe bi-monthly “Compendium Newsletter,” manages the Environmental ResourcesLibrary and writes for the "Culturally Speaking" newsletter. She is also president ofa media consulting firm and lectures regularly. She has taught Cultural and PhysicalAnthropology, Broadcasting, Journalism, and Mass Communications at the collegeand adult level.

Ms. Pearlman is a member of the Gypsy Folk Ensemble and performs and teachesethnic world dance. Her athletic achievements include completing the Western States100-mile run, finishing the Ironman Triathlon, climbing more than 100 listed peaks inCalifornia and the tallest peak in Africa, winning long-distance races such as the 1980Regional Championship 50-mile race, and performing in equestrian events.